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Each year local Pittsburgh artists take over a large warehouse space and put their work on display for an entire night; from sundown till sun-up. The Pittsburgh art scene is amazing. Events like this are a great way for people to get acquainted with local artists and their art. There were paintings, drawings, sculptures. There was also live music and large community projects for people to add to. There was even an ar

Sometimes we are asked to help better explain how different exhibits in the Museum work. Recently the exhibit piece in question was Wooden Mirror by Daniel Rozin, located in a nook between our Garage exhibit and the Changing Exhibits Gallery. This interactive art piece is a lot of fun – it’s made up of a lot of different parts that work together to create an image of whatever is in front of it. We probab

On May 9, we hosted another Youth Maker Night. These events are a great opportunity for older kids to experience MAKESHOP without their parents or younger siblings. We can offer special creative activities that we can’t offer the daily Museum audience. This night’s special activity was making citra solv transfers. The kids learned how to transfer photographic images from paper to other materials such a

Here is a great example of how a visitor can really come prepared to MAKESHOP. Allen visits the Museum a lot and although there are lots of things to play with at the Museum he sometimes brings his own toys as well. During this particular visit his toys completely inspired him to create something in MAKSHOP. He wanted to make a car for his pirate toys to ride around in. We spent a really long time building a car out

We recently explored scale and perspective as a theme in MAKESHOP. One of our activities was to create a tiny version of the MAKESHOP exhibit. I built a small diorama of the room and then let other educators and visitors add to the space. There are some very recognizable objects in MAKESHOP. It was a real challenge building tiny, tiny versions of those objects out of random recycled materials. Little red chair wi

We hosted yet another Adult MAKEnight this October. We offered hand sewing and machine sewing as an activity along with circuit blocks and stop-motion animation. We prompted our patrons to make something for Halloween, but of course everyone was free to make whatever they wanted. The Art Studio also provided a bunch of activities, including silk screening with glow in the dark ink. The silk screens were done on f